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• TITLE: Perforation of the Nasal Septum and Nasal Ulcers

  AUTHORS: Maria Pilar Martín-Fortea, Isabel Sanjoaquín-Conde, Santiago Letona-Carbajo, Maria José Crusells-Canales, Julián Cuesta-Muñoz, Juan Antonio Amiguet-García

  KEYWORDS: Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis, Leishmania/HIV Co-Infection, Nasal Ulcer

  JOURNAL NAME: World Journal of AIDS, Vol.1 No.2, June 30, 2011

  ABSTRACT: A case about a HIV woman with nasal ulcers is described in this paper. In every inmunodepressed patient who has mu-cosal or cutaneous ulcers, infection by leishmanial parasites needs to be ruled out, especially when ulcers have not re-gression with usual treatments. The Leishmanial nasal disease usually shows swelling and mucosal ulcers, that may progress to necrosis. Delaying in appropriate therapy might cause irreversible damage.